Good evening. My name is deirdre cross, director of the Public Programs at the national africanamerican s aim of history and culture and it is my pleasure to welcome all of you to this Wonderful Program and introduce these speakers in our discussion entitled historically speaking, Thurgood Marshall, a life and American History, evening with spencer crew and paul think of it. Paul finkelman. For those streaming the tag ision, our twitter historically speaking. We are also thrilled that this program will be broadcast through cspan book tv to be aired at a later date. Begin this compelling new biography, we are introduced to the constant battles for inequality faced by africanamericans through a study of Thurgood Marshalls extraordinary courage and his belief in the power of the law to change society. Thurgood marshall, a life in American History follows his career from his youth in baltimore, maryland, to his days. T Supreme Court justice his inspiring story illustrates how pervasive rac
My honor the convene this plenary, and when we were planning the conference, we always liked to bring our heavy hitters out. And i think that today is one of those occasions, in which we have a collection of fine scholars and activists here to address the theme. So what we are, and what we have decided to do is to run the plenary more as a round table, and the moderated conversation about the issues with the great migration, and i wanted to introduce our panelists, and give them an opportunity to speak for a few minutes as far as their own work and perceptions and ideas about the great migration, and then move on to the question and answer followed by a discussion with us, and followed by a question and answer session with the audience. So i wanted to introduce our panelists. The first panelist is joe trotter who is a giant history professor and prior with the Carnegie Mellon center in pittsburgh, and previously the president of the africanamerican studies in the urban life and economy
Plannerry. I think when we were planning the conference, we always like to bring our heavy hitters out. And i think today is one of those occasions in which we have a collection of fine scholars and activists here to address our theme. So what we decided to do is run the plannerry more as a roundtable, as a moderated conversation about issue with the great migration. And i wanted to introduce our panelists and give them an opportunity to speak for a few minutes as far as their own work and their perceptions and ideas about the great migration and then move on into a question and answer followed by a discussion with us and followed by a question answer session with the audience. So i want to introduce our panelists. Our first pannestist is joe trotter who is a giant eagle professor of history in social justice and past History Department chair at cornegy university in pittsburgh. He is also the director and founder of the cornegy center for africanamerican urban studies in economy. Hes
To celebrate the 100th anniversaries crautcreathing the Supreme Court. And we just heard a wonderful panel about experiences during the clerkship. And now we will hear one about life after the clerkships. Mag. Anel is joshua he is a very distinguished constitutional lawyer. And the author of important book on impeachment which he came to the National Constitution center to discuss with riveting detail. Recently he clerked for Justice Kennedy. Take it away, josh. Josh thank you very much for coming. m joined today by julia janiskowski. Hes a former general and managing director. I did a stint in private practice. And is now a judge on the u. S. Court of appeals for the third circuit. Shes the author of many bestselling books. If i listed them all she would be here for a while. Shes the creator of a podcast, better. , hes now a partner and a candidate for the mayor of the city of baltimore. So thank you very much for joining. Today,re going to be discussing life after clerking. In some w
Todays program will be broadcast live on cspans booktv. If there is time at the end for a q a session with authors, we use the microphone, located at the center of the room so that the home viewing audience can hear your question. Before we begin todays program we ask you to silence your cell phones and turn off cameras. I am here to introduce our guest, Maudlyne Ihejirika, a journalist for the chicago suntimes, president of the chicago chapter of the National Association of journalists and president of chicago journalist association. Please welcome Maudlyne Ihejirika of the chicago suntimes. [applause] good morning, thank you for being here and joining us for what promises to be an inspiring and intriguing conversation. As a columnist at a major chicago newspaper and as president of the National Association of black journalists chicago chapter ill my career to Dorothy Butler gilliam, author of trailblazer a pioneering journalists fight to make the media look more like america. I owe m